Great rooftop patio!! new tables from last year. beautiful water fountain with flowers and a great sunset view!! amazing staff & food will definitely be back! read more

Not much has changed over the years. Food was pretty good. They still provide lots of free bread and salad. Server good and friendly. Unfortunately kitchen was very slow to make the pasta, due to a large group, also due to the all-you-can-eat pasta on Wednesday! The bacon carbonara was good. Would recommend overall. read more

East Side Mario's - Garden and Caesar salads - Italian Near Me - Nepean, Ontario

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It was our first time here and we had an amazing experience. The food was good, but the service was great. My children were loud and I didn't know what I wanted, our waitress, Kaitlyn, was very professional, patient, polite and friendly. 100% recommending this location. read more

East Side Mario's - Inside of the restaurant - Italian Near Me - Nepean, Ontario

Ok, Besides the roof top patio everything is pretty "meh". It's been quite a few years since I've been here, definitely changes in menu and look but still the same old basic food. The salad seems to have gotten smaller too. Nothing really pops! Oh well. read more

the staff is unprofessional, food takes forever to get ready, the staff near the bar is hell a rude, doesn't know how to talk. Worst place to go to eat in Ottawa. Better to close this kind of restaurant than having staff like this. read more

What happened? I have been here before and everything was amazing. Things have slowly been going downhill, until tonight. This was rock bottom. We ordered prosciutto wrapped mozzarella. The tomato salad it came in was hot, but the prosciutto and mozzarella were not. The Italian wedding soup was really salty. The Caesar salad was great! All hail Caesar! Kinda wishing we'd just had that and bread. My sister in law and I ordered veal parm, and my niece ordered chicken Milano. The chicken, I'm told, was really good...and it looked fantastic. The sides with it however, were not so good. The veg had an odd taste, and the wedge potatoes went untouched after the first bite. The veal parm was served burnt. As a chef, I would NEVER have let it leave my kitchen... and as a server I would have returned it to the chef right away and refused to serve it. Overall, just a bad dinner. read more

East Side Mario's - Veal parm or briquette? I dunno... - Italian Near Me - Nepean, Ontario

Look, sure this is just another chain restaurant, but no another chain in service. The staff make you feel like a local, like you live around the corner and are a part of the community. The food is always great, but the servers make it a laugh. There's these two older guys, who seem to have come straight from the east side. They take no crap and make you laugh! The food arrives quickly and is exactly how you want it. My partner asked for her pasta to be made with no mushrooms and and extra alfredo sauce, and that's how it arrived. The bar staff are funny, welcoming and fantastic. Go for the food, and stay for the attitude. I'm going back as soon as my wife will let me. Bells Corners East Side is a brilliant local for a pint, good company, and a great meal. read more

I ordered pasta and started with a garden salad. Halfway through the salad, I found a balled up receipt (I think; I didn't unroll it) in the bottom of the bowl, doused in dressing. I called the server over, and she apologized and took it away. The restaurant's response was to merely discount my meal 50%. The manager didn't even come over. I have no intention of going back when they don't take LITERAL GARBAGE IN MY MEAL more seriously. read more

Called on a Saturday afternoon for a flexible reservation for 8. We were rudely informed that we should have made the reservation 2 days prior. We volunteered any time after 5:30 up until 8 pm would work but closer to 6:30 was preferred; agent replied that 5:30 was our time. When we asked if there were later times, we were informed we had 5:30 - then they hung up Menu has lost a number of go to items. Went with the four meat pizza without cheese - Pizza was lightly dressed with sauce, toppings were decent and fresh but only covered 3/4 of the pizza surface. The pizza was only 3/4 cooked with doughy in the center and barely done on the 1/4 without toppings. Bread sticks were doughy, under baked and cold, second round were at least warmed... The pizza came with an all you can eat salad - that we never received.. Spaghetti had 3 meatballs and bland tomato sauce. Of seven dishes ordered, only 1 was enjoyed by the recipient. The remainder were disappointing... The service was poor, took forever to show up, then it was a blitz to get our orders, then a huge gap with no attention, then the food showed up and we were hurried through our meal... Clearing us out to get the next guests was clearly the goal... Of our seven meals the scores out of 5: 1,2,3,2,2,3,1 This location and likely the chain is to be avoided. Disappointing neighbourhood choice :( read more

Service lacks beyond anything. It took forever for our server to come greet us, to take our order, and give us our drinks. The food is not good. The bread is too much on the pizza (not a fan of their stuffed pizza). They do have unlimited soup or salad on certain orders - the soup and salad is good. Besides that, the pastas and appetizers are disappointing. read more

If you're looking for a good, cheap, quick restaurant, this isn't the place for you. But if you want to wait two hours for bad food, you might just want to come here. I came on a Wednesday, and I chose to get the all you can eat pasta. It took just under two hours for the first serving to come, yet the food was clearly still rushed. Definitely not worth $20 for something that would take 10 minutes to make at home. Service is decent, but is completely overshadowed by the long time it took. All in all, this restaurant is expensive, bad in quality, and a complete waste of time. read more

Took my mother here for her birthday dinner on a Sunday night, IT WAS DEAD. service was disgraceful.. our server didn't bring our app, the bread was hard as a stone. She did not once come to our table until the end , she made the hostess bring our food. Made us feel very awkward like we did something.. I still tipped her 20% because I too work in the industry but I don't think I will ever be going back to this location.. ( and this was my go to destination in the past.) read more

I went there for lunch and the food was so bad it made me feel very sick. Do not eat at this location. The service was also horrible and dirty. read more

East Side Mario's - a hand grabbing a slice of pepperoni pizza - Italian Near Me - Nepean, Ontario

Every time family comes to town we always choose east side Mario's in bells corners. The food is always good, the servers have no problem putting extra peppers in the garden salad since everyone in our family loves them. They serve complementary bread first, then drinks, then unlimited salad & soup for the table, and finally the main course. You won't go hungry here. The food is a little slow sometimes, after we are done with the salad/soup, that's the only reason I give 4 stars. read more

Always decent for price. Love the all u can eat garlic bread and salad. Pizza decent as us pasta. Wedding soup tasty v

I would like to bring up a few concerns. Two years ago we would frequent their amazing rooftop patio. The drinks were delicious and the apps were half price. Because it was walking distance from our house we loved everything about it. Last year we were excited to go back and enjoy the sun and a few (or 10) drinks. The problems started and got worst as the visits went on. First waiting for 25 minutes for drinks, on an empty patio. Second no towels or soap in both washrooms. I once mentioned it to our server after paying our $250 bill and still tipping 20% and her response was "well you try to work here". Obviously there is a management issue. That was our finally straw. We now uber to big rig or downtown for way better service and clean washrooms. I would love for you guys to fix the problems so we can return, or go out of business so another place can open. Two weeks ago we wanted to use our coupons we received in the mail, so we preordered online. The order said it would be ready at 8:45. I arrived at 8:50 and had to wait another 30 minutes without an apology. The food was actually pretty bad. Not enough sauce on the pasta and undercook. read more

I want to just take a minute to give this restaurant a 5 star review. They went above and beyond , I ordered food via SkipTheDishes and my pizza was left behind. Not only did the restaurant phone me personally they brought me my pizza and gave me a free pizza for the future. I don't dine in but for next time I'll personally go in for their amazing service ! read more

Some of the worst service I have had the misfortune of getting, the food was absolutely atrocious, and the washrooms looked like a scene out of a horror film. When I got home I was on the toilet for 6 hours. read more

I would have given it a 5 star it was good good good service but when I got home I took the biggest crap of my life I mean it filled the whole toilet and I threw up a couple of organs read more

I have been here a few times every time it seem like it's new owners or Managment. I only come here in the summer for the beautiful rooftop patio. Our server was nice although I think she had been out on the patio too long. Should definitely allow patio workers to go home and grab a shower during their break even if it's a longer break than normal. We ordered some draft and it came quick and was delicious which is a change from te last few visits. We ordered some apps stuffed mushrooms and budda boomers. They were half price which wasn't told to me until I asked if there were food specials. The food showed up promptly but the mushrooms were not golf ball sized as described just the same a a red lobster escargot size, in the same dish. They were good. The budda boomers were a good portion but did not have enough sauce. I had to wait until the waitress came back with our drink to tell her we needed more. He didn't bring it I had to ask again she said she had to go down stairs to get it. She did but the food was cold by the time all this was done. In the end it wasn't a horrible experience and with some training in CS it can be a great one. Back on 11 June 15. Service has improved beer is still great and the patio is great! read more

Well I'm from Toronto visiting friends in Ottawa and I must say this is the worst service I received. The attitude we received was ridiculous! The server forgot one of our orders, she spilt a glass of ice water on one of us and we had to consistently ask for water. Extremely disappointed and I recommend to eat at the McDonalds down the road. read more

Literally one of the worst services I have ever had in a restaurant ever. I am visiting from Alberta and went out for drinks with friends. They both ordered a bucket of beers for 25 dollars. The server did not know what we were talking about and then when we asked her again she couldn't tell us what beer was included. After my two friends ordered their drinks, she started to walk away... Before I had a chance to order. So I just said "excuse me, I haven't ordered yet, can I have a Caesar?" She responds "Yes, I'm sorry. Would you like chicken on that?" Confused I say "the drink comes with chicken on it?" She then understands what I'm saying, leaves the menus and comes back with our drinks and walks away without asking if we want to order food. I notice now that pizzas are half off, 7 days a week between 4 and 6, with the purchase of a Drink. The time is around 5pm. When she returns I order a BLT pizza - a pizza on their regular menu! And she looks at me and says "you want lettuce on your pizza?" I proceed to show her the menu item and she takes our order. Baffled already- the pizza comes out and it's the thinnest pizza I have ever seen - to the point where the sauce is leaking through the crust. I did not order a thin pizza. I let this go and decide not to say anything. When it comes to paying our bill, we split it three ways. My friends paying each for a bucket of beer and I pay for the pizza and the Caesar. After paying, I notice that I was charged full price for the pizza. Not a huge deal, but the only reason I chose a pizza over anything else. My server is no where to be found so I go and up to bar and ask "Pizza is half off right now, correct?" She responds it is. Takes my bill without saying anything and goes to the back (presumably to her manager). She comes back out saying there is nothing they can do because they cannot combine offers. I let her know that it was separate bills- therefore separate orders so the offers were not combined and that is not written anywhere on the menu or on the special menu. She then looks at me deer in the headlights style and says "well I can't do anything because you've paid." I then ask for a gift certificate and she says "I can give you a gift certificate for the difference or a small pizza to go." I choose the gift certificate. She brings it out - a 5 dollar gift certificate for a 7.50 difference and only valid at the Bells Corner location. I don't bring this to their attention and just leave the restaurant. Regardless of me not living in Ottawa, I will not be coming back to this location or any location again. East Side Marios - Hey Budda Boom, Budda FLOP! read more

Nachos were good. Chips were warm and tasty, though didn't enjoy their Italian wedding soup. Was very sour. Didn't taste homemade. Yuck.

Zucchini sticks! Should have been called fried bread sticks. Zucchini is so thin it's hardly recognizable . Such a disappointment. read more

It all started when they gave me a nice table but it was to wobbly! Then asked for coffee waitress said it from this morning it's now 4.00pm so no coffee. Asked if they have any pop in the can of bottle she said no so I guess water it is. Ordered pasta and salad... The salad came no Parmesan cheese so I decided to get up and find some and bring it to my table thanks to me I started eating. I ordered penne with rose sauce and chicken instead I got penne with white sauce and chicken so I ate half gave the other half away. I ordered more salad but the waitress forgot and put bacon on it so had to wait to get a different salad which could of used more dressing. Finally decided to get desert I went for the funnel cake but when it arrived it was way over cooked like hard as a rock and two very tiny scoops of ice cream and a squirt of whip cream I was like WTF. I have been to many east side Marios but never had I had such bad food. I will never ever come back to this locations read more

This place is awesome!!! Super nice staff!!!! Especially Mel and Nicole! They're legendary!!!!!!!! read more